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All Souls – Images from around our Diocese
All Souls services are an opportunity for people to remember loved ones who have died with thanksgiving – offering a chance to grieve, reflect, remember and say thank you...
Light Parties for All Hallows’ Eve – Pictures from around our Diocese
Whether it was glow-in-the-dark paint, decorated cookies, fancy dress outfits or decking the church hall with huge tissue paper creature, our churches sparkled on All Hallows this year with light...
Churches serve ‘trick or treaters’ with Supper Trails
St Toms, Fair Oak The team from St Toms set out to bless their local community out on the streets on All Hallows’ Eve, setting up three stations along...
Local children invited for ‘Half Term Singing Day’ at St Michael & All Angels
The music team at St Michael & All Angels’ Church, Bassett, Southampton have welcomed local children for a successful ‘Half Term Singing Day’. Children in years 3 to 9...
St Mary’s Sholing offers lunch club to struggling families over half term
Over the half term break, St Mary’s Church in Sholing has opened its doors to struggling families, through its ‘Make Lunch’ initiative, offering free, hot and healthy meals, as...
Celebrating the work of Millbrook Market
Maybush Church, Southampton, has been working alongside Southampton City Mission to serve its local community with a much needed membership food club, open to anyone living within the postcodes...
Bishop Debbie opens the first all-through school in Winchester Diocese
On Thursday 13th October, Bishop Debbie opened St Mark’s CE School in Shirley, Southampton’s first all-through school for pupils aged 4-16. Bishop Debbie enjoyed a tour of the new...
Poppy cascade unveiled at St Mary’s Church Tadley
A beautiful poppy cascade was recently unveiled at St Mary’s Church Tadley, in anticipation of Remembrance Sunday and to mark the opening of the 2022 Tadley Autumn Arts Festival...
Learnings from the period of national mourning
Churches across our diocese played an essential part, and worked really hard, in supporting people in their grief and remembrance following the death of Her Majesty the Queen –...